From a cube-shaped planet far from earth… From the deepest darkest corner of the deepest darkest dungeon of Bizarro World, Bryan Lunduke releases Linux Tycoon, his closed-source game about an open source operating system for a closed source operating system no one uses. That’s right, you thought today’s earlier headlines were a pump-fake-pass for April [...]
Plasma Workspaces 2 Coming To Wayland, KDM Not Invited
Auf Wiedersehen KDM The first part of today’s headline is probably obvious to many of you. KDE will be moving on from Xorg to Wayland. And considering Gnome’s aggressive plans to move to it, this may happen sooner rather than later. KDE & Gnome having a mutual interest in Wayland is great, and we can’t wait to [...]
An Unlikely Union: Microsoft SmartGlass for Android Review
Despite some concerns and doubts from the community early on, Microsoft has finally released its SmartGlass application for Android. For those who aren’t acquainted with the technology, SmartGlass allows various PC and mobile operating systems to directly control the Microsoft Xbox 360 game console. Users are able to control most aspects of the Xbox interface (and select [...]
Slackware Linux Hits 14.0
Some good news this weekend for fans of the world oldest maintained GNU/Linux distribution, Slackware. Despite some persistent rumors earlier in the year about its demise, Slackware has just officially announced their version 14.0 release. Slackware 14.0 Slackware 14.0 comes nearly 18 months after the previous release, Slackware 13.37. The numerically astute among our readers will probably [...]
MG, Android’s Answer to the iPod Touch, Hits Kickstarter
If the Kickstarter campaign for the MG goes according to plan, kids all over the world may be opening up shiny new Ice Cream Sandwich devices over the holidays…but we’ve got a long way to go. The MG The easiest way to think of the MG is as an Android phone, but without the phone part. [...]
White House Updates Open Source Repository
The White House has recently uploaded their GitHub page with the source code for both the iOS and Android versions of their mobile application. This comes only two weeks after releasing the source code for “We the People“, the online petition software the White House developed under President Obama to facilitate better communication with the [...]
Linux Mint 13 KDE Arrives, But Why?
Just hours ago, Linux Mint announced the delayed availability of Linux Mint 13 “KDE”. This latest release offers KDE 4.8, artwork improvements, and finally sets your default homepage in Firefox to Yahoo. This updated KDE release may be very welcome news to users of Linux Mint that have been waiting to join the ranks of [...]
SOS: Save Our Slackware?
The last few days have seen a depressing flurry of forum topics and blog posts about the supposed death of Slackware, evidenced (primarily) by the fact that Slackware.com has been down quite a bit recently (indeed, it is down at the time of this writing). For any other modern distribution, downtime on the site might not mean [...]
Integrating Shutter With KDE 4.7
Forget KSnapshot! Did you know that you can integrate Shutter with KDE 4.7? Yes, you sure can. Shutter is an excellent tool for screen captures regardless of your desktop environment. Why? If you use Shutter for taking screenshots, what is the use of launching KSnapshot when you press prt scr? A guide for this already [...]
The Mate Project’s New Logo. Is It Stolen?
No! The Mate Project. A great project that aims to maintain Gnome 2.x and make it installable alongside Gnome 3, seems to have a new logo. At first glance, it is a very attractive logo, but when you hover over the image, it says the following; “Logo created by neocrust, used without permission” It was [...]